Laptop Games? (minimal mouse use required)

[decomp]

Hi all!

I'm hoping to start a thread to name some games that need little or no mouse control. The reason is that I like to play games on my laptop, but I'm often on the go and can't plug in a usb mouse. I'm guessing with so many other lappies out there, there's got to be some similar gamers to myself? As a result I end up playing alot of puzzle or turn based games. I would like to play some more action packed games but most require a mouse.

Any ideas? PS: Native games (no wine) preferred.

Thanks in advance!


To start out, I'll name one good one I've found: Egoboo

Egoboo is a 3d Zelda / nethack like dungeon crawler.

[qalimas]

Super Maryo Crhonicals
Supertux

[Vadi]

MUD games (typing only). See ironrealms for a good maker of muds, and mudlet for a good client

[decomp]

Armagetron Advanced - 3d light cycle racing inspired by the movie.

[Woojoo//.deb]

The Battle for Wesnoth
is turn based and also got plenty of short key which make it easy to play it. i play it almost regulary on my laptop

[Nevon]

Console emulation would be your best bet. There are so many great games for NES, SNES, Genesis, GB(A) etc.

[Rhubarb]

Frozen Bubble - no mouse required at all for this game :)

[5nak3]

the mana world
xmoto
neverball

Just a few which i can play without the mouse :)

[Artificial Intelligence]

Sword of Fargoal

[psychoelf]

Crazy as it sounds, I actually play Urban Terror without a mouse if I'm in the crapper. Aim may not be as good, but it works.

[doorknob60]

Crazy as it sounds, I actually play Urban Terror without a mouse if I'm in the crapper. Aim may not be as good, but it works.

Hope you're talking about aim in the game :O


Immature comments aside, I recommend emulation for sure. Mupen64plus, Zsnes, etc. are endless hours of entertainment :) Also Frozen Bubble can be addicting too :D

[michael18]

any nice 3D racing games like NFS can play in Ubuntu?
the one does not require wine...xD
oh...and oso 1st or 3rd person shooter game...
coz i juz reformat my laptop and change to Ubuntu 9.10 last sunday...
i'm the newbies in LINUX OS...xD

[tommcd]

I just installed Chromium-BSU on my laptop:
http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/
I can control it pretty well with the touch-pad and the buttons below the touch-pad on the laptop. The graphics requirements are not very high either. My laptop has intel 945GM graphics and the game plays fine. The graphics quality is adjustable in the game also.

[del_diablo]

Knights of the old Republic 1 & 2 is playable without a mouse for the most, since it actually got an nifty hotkey setup.

[michael18]

actually how to install a game in ubuntu?
xD

[Artificial Intelligence]

actually how to install a game in ubuntu?
xD

Depends what game we're talking about. You can find a lot in Ubuntu's Package Manager. And you can add Playdeb to your manager to get more games. http://www.playdeb.net/welcome/

Other may require more work if they're only available as source codes etc.

[decomp]

How about Freedoom / Prboom - a port of the old school shooter. Doom was originally played with no mouse so it still works great without it :)